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Cover Me Impressed

With a focus on the 60's-90's music scene, CMI is a Paradiso for Lovers Cover Songs! Each post focuses on a particular song and provides its original and most popular recordings as well as covers versions. Patrons of CMI vote on the most deserving cover version, which will then live to compete again, battling other cover songs in a future post.

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I like this – 3 very different versions, all of which have merit. The Flamin’ Groovies straight rock approach could have won this easily. But at nearly 5 and a half minutes, they went on too long. So I’m going with Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra’s surprisingly good instrumental rendition. The keyboard/guitar interplay is enough to be interesting while staying ever-so-slightly on this side of “too cheesy”.

This is a song that should not be screwed with much. That eliminates the Culture Serial Killers. I feel the same way as Doug, the Flamin’ Groovies do a nice, no-frills version but it should have been shorter. The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra made me feel like I was in an Austin Powers movie. Right about now I wish I were in an Austin Powers movie. Even still, the too-long Flamin’ Groovies got my vote.

I didn’t like the instrumental version, but i was torn between the Culture Serial Killers and the Flamin’ Groovies. I went with the Groovies; this song really needs to be rocking. I really haven’t heard a cover version of this song that comes close; this song belongs completely and totally to the Stones.

I don’t know if this is the quintessential Stones tune, but if it isn’t it must be in the top ten quintessential Stones songs. The CSK and PTSO versions made me think I was in Dante’s fifth circle of Hell, forever stuck in an elevator or the promenade of a mall with no wine, beer, peanuts, or possibility of escape. The Flamin’ Groovies version seemed to shuffle between the best of Stones bootleg LP’s like “Live R Than You’ll Ever Be” and a mish mash of studio production, I dug it and dug the extended play too…Rock On Groovies!

Culture Serial Killers were just so somnambulistic. My life coach loosens my restraints when I use words with ten or more letters. PT Sound Orchestra was better, with groovy organ and guitar that actually slashes and nips. No full bites but a step in the right direction. Groovies get it easily from me. Gritty and organic. You have to break a sweat when you play this song. That is a rule. They recorded this in the winter in London. That is why they went on the extra two minutes.